( 263 ) is flifEciently declared, Acts 15. the one Church con- tinuing Zealous of the Law, and the other refojced for the Conflation ofbeing delivered from it rar.31. Yet was there no Schifne between there Churches, but a confiant Communion in Faith and Love. Such diffe- rences in Opinions and Pradifes were not yet formed into an Intereft, obliging men tocondemn them as Schif- ntaticks, who differ from them. For not to (peak of what Orders and Rules for decency, particular Chur- ches may make by common Confent, among themfelves, to make the Oblervation of Arbitrary Inflitutions, not prefcribed in the Scripture, upon manyChurches, to be the Rule of Commtnion in them and between them , which whofoever obfèrve not, are to be efteemed Guil- ty ofSdifine, which Vklor, 'B/bop of Rome firft at- tempted, is contrary to the Rules of the Scripture, to the Principles of Chriflian Faith, Love, and Liberty, to the Example of the Apofiles, hath no countenance givenunto it in the Primitive Churches,and will certain- ly make our Differences Endlefs, I judge that in the Beginning of the Chapter the Apo file intends thofe of the firft fort, and that as well be- caufe he calls them Dogs and theConcilion, which anfwers unto the Account he gives of them, i The': 2. 14, 15 5 as allo becaufe he fpeaks ofthem as ;bore who advanced the pretended Priviledges of judaifine, abfolutely a- gainft Chrift, the Gofpel, and the Righteoulheg of God revealed therein. Hereon in oppofition unto them, he declares that they had nothing to boaft of; but what he himfelf had a Right unto as well as they, and which he had voluntarily relinquifhed and renounced for Chrift and the Gofpel, wherein he teftifies what he had at- taied..
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